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Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the Ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now, back at it again on
Speaker 1: a Saturday's Saturday's Saturday. It is another edition of The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor as we are back at
Speaker 1: it eight days a week. This is the Saturday Podcast.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you. I've done a lot
Speaker 1: of these things. That conversation with Tommy john is in
Speaker 1: my top five pantheon of things I did not expect now.
Speaker 1: I was very excited to talk to Tommy, and I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the conversation, and if you didn't hear it, I
Speaker 1: do highly recommend going back. Because so often we have
Speaker 1: people on who are guarded and afraid to say anything.
Speaker 1: Tommy was the opposite. He said whatever was on his
Speaker 1: mind and told the fact that he almost died of COVID.
Speaker 1: A wild tale from baseball player Tommy Johns so I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still getting over that. I'm still you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still enjoying the afterglow of that conversation. But the
Speaker 1: podcast game does not end. The podcast machine does not end.
Speaker 1: And this the Saturday Podcast, and we thank you for
Speaker 1: hitting that subscribe button, giving us five stars and telling
Speaker 1: a friend, telling a friend, what does that help us out?
Speaker 1: And yet again it's it's like a hostile take over. Here.
Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, better known as his wrestling name Ryan McBain
Speaker 1: is writing shotgun. Are we still allowed to say that?
Speaker 1: He's in the passenger seat here on the fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller. So Mr McMahon, the number one Boston
Speaker 1: fan that I know that works at Fox Sports Radio Boston,
Speaker 1: can kiss my ass. Yes, yes, yes, and yes you
Speaker 1: can still say shotgun. Okay good. That has not been
Speaker 1: canceled yet. So you're writing shotgun I came, which is
Speaker 1: a great reference, as you know, Ryan, because you're a
Speaker 1: historian of words. That goes back to the stagecoach days, right,
Speaker 1: that was the in the early days of travel in
Speaker 1: the Old West. They had the person who was driving
Speaker 1: the stage coach, who was holding onto the straps with
Speaker 1: the horses, and then the person next to him was
Speaker 1: the lookout in case some you know, some hostile attack
Speaker 1: on the side of a dirt road somewhere, so they
Speaker 1: had you. You were literally holding a shotgun sitting next
Speaker 1: to the driver, and you had to obviously defend stage coach. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm your protor. That's right, you are holding the weapon,
Speaker 1: protecting us from evil people who from Boston, evil people
Speaker 1: from Boston. Yes, here we go again, here we go.
Speaker 1: All right, So on this podcast we'll see how much
Speaker 1: of this we get too, because I have a lot
Speaker 1: of things I wanted to rant about. I've got the eulogy, right,
Speaker 1: the eulogy, the p it's a party foul, We've got that.
Speaker 1: We have pop quiz and study, you know, let's get
Speaker 1: scientifical that kind of stuff. So when we might get
Speaker 1: some of that, depending on the time, Depending on the time.
Speaker 1: You don't want a tight clock here unless we're not.
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to spend some time at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the Saturday podcast to acknowledge said it and
Speaker 1: forget it. And if you've been a fan of a podcast,
Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a while now, and we
Speaker 1: we try to get people that touched my life in
Speaker 1: one way or another, people I like in radio. Usually
Speaker 1: we get a lot of radio nerds that come on here, uh,
Speaker 1: and and athletes that I appreciate and whatnot. And with
Speaker 1: that as the backdrop, one of the people that I
Speaker 1: really wanted to get on the podcast that I tried.
Speaker 1: I said, when I got this podcast, I gotta get
Speaker 1: this guy on. I want to talk to this guy.
Speaker 1: This guy's alleged he's a living legend, and I I
Speaker 1: had it booked. It didn't happen. So we're talking about Uh,
Speaker 1: the old gangster of infomercials has gone to salesman heaven,
Speaker 1: Ron Pope Peel. Ron Pope. Now we mentioned this briefly
Speaker 1: in the Overnight the other day, but Ron Popeel not
Speaker 1: just an infommercial guy. The guy was an inventor. But
Speaker 1: he did become the face of infommercials and the as
Speaker 1: seen on TV product line the Showtime Rotisserie, the Pocket Fisherman.
Speaker 1: He passed away this week at age six. Apparently had
Speaker 1: a brief medical emergency on Tuesday. And life is so fragile,
Speaker 1: so fleeting at at all ages, but especially when you
Speaker 1: get to that age. And then he passed away the
Speaker 1: day after here in Los Angeles at Cedar Sinai where
Speaker 1: a lot of the celebrity people go. That's the celebrity
Speaker 1: hospital there in La La Land. And and so he
Speaker 1: has known as the the the set in the forgett
Speaker 1: It And so he's checked out. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: give you the backstory if you missed those podcasts, kind
Speaker 1: of give you the story here. So I love infomercials.
Speaker 1: I've always been more of a night person. And when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, there wasn't a lot to watch
Speaker 1: late at night on television. A lot of reruns and
Speaker 1: a lot of TV stations actually would like shut off
Speaker 1: after a certain hour and just have nothing. And then
Speaker 1: infomercials came and that was a big thing, and I
Speaker 1: would watch quite a bit of infomercis. We didn't have
Speaker 1: the interweb the way it is today now. When I
Speaker 1: can't sleep, I'll just go on the Internet and I'll
Speaker 1: fall into the matrix and I'm good. I can kill
Speaker 1: hour after hour on YouTube. But that didn't exist, so
Speaker 1: so I watched a lot of infommercials. It was very
Speaker 1: influential on my childhood, which is bizarre to say, because
Speaker 1: I didn't really buy much. I did buy one thing
Speaker 1: I bought the They had car wax that you could
Speaker 1: put on the car and you could light it on
Speaker 1: fire and the car would not be burned. And this
Speaker 1: was such an impressive infomercial to me that I bought
Speaker 1: the car wax. And I was so excited because they
Speaker 1: threw in all those extras and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: Um so I had. That's the only thing I bought.
Speaker 1: But I watched so much of Ron Popel and the
Speaker 1: Showtime Rotisserie was the most famous of the late night
Speaker 1: infomercial sold a billion, a billion rotisserie cookers one billion,
Speaker 1: and and just insane, just just insane. So and uh
Speaker 1: and and he was the guy that is credited with
Speaker 1: coming up with the most famous phrase in salesmanship. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. But wait there's more. Is that not perfect?
Speaker 1: But wait there's more. So so I attempted to book
Speaker 1: Ron POPEO. I have followed him on Facebook for many years.
Speaker 1: We are Facebook, Ron Popeel and myself, and so I
Speaker 1: reached out on Facebook. I said, hey, Ron, I'm a
Speaker 1: radio guy. I put myself up a little bit, put
Speaker 1: my look at me. I'm so great. Uh. I do
Speaker 1: a radio show and it's on four hundred stations and
Speaker 1: it's on all over the world, you know, really pumping
Speaker 1: it up, you know, really exaggerated, which is not exaggerate.
Speaker 1: I'm just pumping up. So Ron gets back to me
Speaker 1: and said, listen to my publicist. Talk to my publicist.
Speaker 1: We'll do it, okay. So I talked to the publicist
Speaker 1: and then I play email tech with the publicist. We
Speaker 1: go back and forth, very nice woman, and she's like,
Speaker 1: what's where's the show going to be broadcast? You know,
Speaker 1: how long is the inter We're gonna be all those who, what, where? When? Why? Questions?
Speaker 1: So I'm okay, all right, you know, I answered all
Speaker 1: the questions. We go through everything, um, and she says, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to Ron, just make sure he definitely wants
Speaker 1: to do it, and we'll get back to So she
Speaker 1: emails me back. She says, Ron really wants to do it.
Speaker 1: He wants to know who you've had on in the past, though,
Speaker 1: some of the names you've had on the past. So
Speaker 1: I said, okay, no problem. So then at that time,
Speaker 1: it was early in the fifth hour, and at that time,
Speaker 1: the only names we had had on on We're like
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno and Lenny Dikest. It was like that was it,
Speaker 1: and radio's Tony Bruno and baseball's Lenny Dice. So I
Speaker 1: wrote back and I said, well, we had Lenny Dikester
Speaker 1: was part of the eighties six Mets, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a wild character. And baseball we had Tony Bruno, the
Speaker 1: guy started ESPN Radio, he started Fox Sports Radio pretty
Speaker 1: much is the god of syndicated sports radio. We had
Speaker 1: him on. You know, we're just starting the podcast, and
Speaker 1: she says, okay, great, I'll go back to Iron and
Speaker 1: then we'll come back to you and it should be
Speaker 1: no problem. We'll book the podcasts. Yes, sure, no problem,
Speaker 1: so I said. I wrote back and said, well Thursday.
Speaker 1: You know, we do the normal to record the podcast
Speaker 1: in the afternoon on Thursdays. There's good, no problem. So
Speaker 1: she then I get no response right for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, and I'm like, well, this is not good.
Speaker 1: This is not good. You know. She had been writing
Speaker 1: back and then like the morning before we were supposed
Speaker 1: to record the rom Pool Peel podcast, which I thought
Speaker 1: was a tentative green light go in turn. Instead it
Speaker 1: was like a yellow light, but it was actually more
Speaker 1: of a red light. She writes back, she says, well,
Speaker 1: after further review, uh, you know, run just you know,
Speaker 1: he's got to spend time with his the grandkids, and
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a house in Malibu. I think
Speaker 1: it was that he had to go to and he
Speaker 1: just doesn't have time to do it, so he can't
Speaker 1: do it. She said, okay, great, so why don't we
Speaker 1: do it next week. We can do it next week,
Speaker 1: maybe he won't be as busy. And then she's she
Speaker 1: realized I didn't get the message, you know, the kind
Speaker 1: put down, and so then she just said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: Ron just he didn't have enough big names on there,
Speaker 1: so he didn't want to do it. And I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, whatever. I was devastated, but you know, that's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean the guy was in his his golden years
Speaker 1: and that's that's his position. But it doesn't mean I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge fan. A huge fan. I've read books.
Speaker 1: Uh that's what a loser I am. I've read books
Speaker 1: about informercial. I'm just fascinating. No, no, McBey, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: you're laughing at me, Mr Big. But here's my position.
Speaker 1: Like radio is, sales were in the sales business, right,
Speaker 1: and really all of life is sales. You want people
Speaker 1: to like you. You're selling your your personality, You're selling
Speaker 1: you know, if your business, you're selling business. And they
Speaker 1: have mastered all of these Jedi mind tricks in infomercials.
Speaker 1: They really have, and I've I've been fascinated by it.
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I had no business, I didn't
Speaker 1: even have any money or a credit card, and I
Speaker 1: would watch for hours these infomercials and be captivated. You
Speaker 1: should have lined by the way. You should have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we had we had lots of big names on on
Speaker 1: the pond. That's what you should have done. I know
Speaker 1: on on hindsight. We used to have a producer I
Speaker 1: will not say the name, uh, but famously would book
Speaker 1: star baseball players and sometimes he would say he was
Speaker 1: the Today Show or you know, because it was he
Speaker 1: was doing. He was perusing a morning show and so
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, hey, it's so and so from
Speaker 1: the Today Show. Can you come on? And then they'd
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, sure, I think I know who the
Speaker 1: producer is. You probably do know who the producer is.
Speaker 1: You probably do no wire, I don't know is I
Speaker 1: know it's morally not proper Ryan, I know it's morally not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's illegal to say that. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about the hell it is. The show does
Speaker 1: take place in the morning, yeah, yeah, and you could
Speaker 1: say that among the people on the show, that's what
Speaker 1: we call it. You could say, that's the name that
Speaker 1: we have for the show. So, uh, be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am eastern pm Pacific. Anyway, just to wrap up,
Speaker 1: I won't spend the whole thing on rom Po Peo,
Speaker 1: but he did influence me a little bit and actually
Speaker 1: a lot. And he had the whole Ronco line of products.
Speaker 1: I mean this this was all kinds of crap that
Speaker 1: has just filled landfills over the years, right, I mean
Speaker 1: and for radio, now, this is something I did have,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get it off an infomercial. My mom
Speaker 1: bottle for me because she knew I was a fat
Speaker 1: kid that wasn't gonna make it in sports. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to be on radio. Mr microphone, Mr microphone. Uh
Speaker 1: that was all you could hook up to the radio
Speaker 1: and beyond the radio, and that mattered back in those days. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, you go on YouTube, you know different there's
Speaker 1: a stone age back then. But I was a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's like the first karaoke machine. I had a MR microphone,
Speaker 1: I did, I still have one that I'm a grown up.
Speaker 1: I have a I'm a grown ass man. I have
Speaker 1: a MR microphone, radio studio here um. And he had
Speaker 1: the pocket Fisherman. You know what, any jokes didn't Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live in the old days. I think they did
Speaker 1: jokes about the pocket Fisherman. Goofund on, Ron popeel Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of stuff. His his stuff
Speaker 1: is in the Smithsonian's that's wild. So rest in peace,
Speaker 1: Ron Popio in fullmercial god, who ended his life worth
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars two hundred million smackaroos. And I
Speaker 1: know even in recent years from being Facebook friends with him,
Speaker 1: that he would still hang out with the other big
Speaker 1: stars of the infomercial world. Like there's this tight fraterning
Speaker 1: there and I know it's table. I think this guy
Speaker 1: has been banned by a lot of people. I off
Speaker 1: photo of him with the my pillow guy saying with him,
Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan Ryan, not at all,
Speaker 1: not at I'm not a fan of him. Who do
Speaker 1: you hate more than my pillow guy or Boston. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. That's a selfie's choice, that's a
Speaker 1: pick your poison. Yeah, I ain't. I guess, I guess
Speaker 1: how to go with Boston? I guess, But let's put
Speaker 1: you you really don't hate the my pillow guy as much.
Speaker 1: That's pretty close close. So on a scale of one
Speaker 1: to tend Ryan McBain, what how big a loser am
Speaker 1: I that my hero, one of my heroes as a kid,
Speaker 1: was a guy hawking products on infomercials. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: you're a loser at all. I would say that you're uh.
Speaker 1: You just give a valuable lesson, and that lesson is
Speaker 1: if you want that big interview, you gotta lie. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is true. That's a teachable moment. That is correct
Speaker 1: teachable moment. But all the tricks, and think out the
Speaker 1: tricks that are used today in sales, like the feigning.
Speaker 1: A small amount of one of the tricks that he
Speaker 1: learned on the I think it was on the Jersey
Speaker 1: shore at the boardwalk on Atlantic City is Ron Popeo
Speaker 1: was out and he was before he became an informercial guy.
Speaker 1: I remember reading a book about his his early life
Speaker 1: and he would be out on the boardwalk. His father
Speaker 1: was in the business, and he would get people walking
Speaker 1: down the boardwalk and he'd have these over the top
Speaker 1: sales pitches like a carnival barker, but you're selling a
Speaker 1: pasta maker or something like that, you know. And and
Speaker 1: then he he would have a crowd. He build a
Speaker 1: crowd up, and then he would sell products. And then
Speaker 1: before he sold all the products, he would he would
Speaker 1: say we we ran out, and he'd keep the crowd.
Speaker 1: So then the next time he started it over the
Speaker 1: same bullshit, the bullshit, he would have a crowd. And
Speaker 1: then he realized that other people, because human nature, and
Speaker 1: this has been proven, when people see a line people
Speaker 1: waiting for something, they think it's a more important They
Speaker 1: they're curious, right, I guess the first thing would be curious.
Speaker 1: Secondly they're like, what, well, this must be really good.
Speaker 1: People are waiting online for this, and so it's he
Speaker 1: channels human nature. And to this day, when you open
Speaker 1: a restaurant, if you pay, you're not gonna have to pay.
Speaker 1: But if you get a crowd of relatives and friends
Speaker 1: to fill up the restaurant and make it seem like
Speaker 1: it's really popular, people that would never eat at that
Speaker 1: restaurant will come to the restaurant thinking, you know, there's
Speaker 1: something amazing about that. There's a scientific name for it.
Speaker 1: I don't remember it offhand here, I have to look
Speaker 1: it up, but it's true. My my wife's the same way.
Speaker 1: My wife, Well, we've got to go to that restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's popular. I'm like, no, I'm the opposite. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm an introvert like you McBain, and I want I
Speaker 1: don't want to go anywhere near where it's popular. I
Speaker 1: want I want to go where there's no one. I
Speaker 1: want to go where they haven't served uh that meal
Speaker 1: in two months. That's where I want to go, exactly
Speaker 1: because you're seated quicker. Absolutely, I totally agree with you exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, So, uh we have a pizza party. Foul
Speaker 1: Tales from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion Tails
Speaker 1: from the Halfway House at the Mallard Mansion. Now, as
Speaker 1: you know, I dabble. I dabb only kitchen, and since
Speaker 1: I am living in a temporary place with a rather
Speaker 1: small kitchen, I would say this is the smallest kitchen
Speaker 1: I've had since I lived in a little ship whole
Speaker 1: apartment in Hollywood. It's very tiny. It's a little like
Speaker 1: a small wrap around kind of corner, doesn't even go
Speaker 1: through the whole corner of the room type of thing.
Speaker 1: I bet your kitchens bigger than my entire apartment, no chance,
Speaker 1: how big. You have a studio or a one bedroom.
Speaker 1: I have a one bedroom. Well, yeah, you don't even
Speaker 1: have If you don't, if you had a studio, then
Speaker 1: you could make that argument. Studio apartments blow terrible. I
Speaker 1: hate studio apartments. So you have a one bedroom, one bedroom,
Speaker 1: one bath. Of course that's all you need. Now, if
Speaker 1: you had no bath, you'd have a problem. If you
Speaker 1: have no bath, you'd have an issue. That would be
Speaker 1: a problem, slight problem. So it's a small, small kitch
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff in boxes. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not the first world problem. It's a good problem
Speaker 1: to have them living the whole ball life. Fine, whatever
Speaker 1: I signed up for in any event, get to the point, please.
Speaker 1: So this week, in my haste to make the perfect
Speaker 1: Mallard pizza, it's the one thing I still cook. Everything
Speaker 1: else I got to eat out of a doggy bag
Speaker 1: because I have to get It's the one thing I
Speaker 1: can cook in this in this fugazy kitchen, I got
Speaker 1: so the Mallard pizza, and I am very meticulous. I
Speaker 1: am a person that follows the recipe exactly. But I
Speaker 1: have made the Mallard brand pizza so often that it
Speaker 1: has become second nature. I make it every week, normally
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. That's pizza day. Don't eat on Monday, eat
Speaker 1: break the fast with the Mallard pizza on Tuesday. Well, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: as I said, to my haste to make the perfect
Speaker 1: Mallard pizza, I did not pay proper attention to detail
Speaker 1: this week and this week different than all other weeks.
Speaker 1: And so after rolling out the dough, putting the tomato
Speaker 1: sauce on, spreading out the mazzarella, the spices, the Italian seasoning,
Speaker 1: the pizza spices, the garlic, the onion, the bell pepper,
Speaker 1: all that, so I get to the very end. My
Speaker 1: my last touch on the pizza is I try to
Speaker 1: make a big fat crust and I like to put
Speaker 1: parmesan a cheese around the crust. You know, that sprinkle
Speaker 1: sprinkle of parmesan cheese. And to me, that's that's a
Speaker 1: nice touch. Yes, So I like that. That's my move.
Speaker 1: So I go to the refrigerator. McBain, I grabbed the
Speaker 1: parmer gan a cheese. I grabbed, I take it out
Speaker 1: and i started sprinkling it around the pizza and I'm
Speaker 1: about done, and much to my shock, I noticed that
Speaker 1: the palm just didn't look right. Jesus Christ, Yeah, now, Keiman,
Speaker 1: why Now? I did look in the bag of cheese,
Speaker 1: and the top layer was fine. It was the proper color,
Speaker 1: it was the proper texture of parmegana cheese. But as
Speaker 1: I went underneath that top layer, there was some moldiness there.
Speaker 1: And I had just covered the crust of my pizza
Speaker 1: with moldy parmesan cheese. Well, you know, some people do
Speaker 1: like penicillin on their pizza. Now at this point, we're
Speaker 1: at a crossroads. What do you think I did at
Speaker 1: this particular point. I know, damn well, you ate that pizza.
Speaker 1: Damn right, absolutely correct. So so here's my move, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, holy fuck, I mean, one am. I
Speaker 1: I didn't have another thing at doll I didn't have
Speaker 1: more tomato sauce. This was the one pie and I
Speaker 1: was hungry. I hadn't eaten since Sunday and it was Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So I gotta eat. And so so I'm like examining
Speaker 1: the pie with my I'm getting right up with my
Speaker 1: putting my nose in the in the dog, trying to
Speaker 1: see the the moldy cheese. And so I went over
Speaker 1: there and tried to remove. As they say in in gardening,
Speaker 1: you removed the dead wood, right, you cut the dead
Speaker 1: wood out. So I'm trying to remove the cheese, the
Speaker 1: moldy cheese. I think I got about of the moldy
Speaker 1: cheese out and then I just gave up. I figured, well,
Speaker 1: of moldy cheese, I think I'll be okay, and I
Speaker 1: and I cooked it and I ate it and I'm
Speaker 1: still alive to talk about it. So it didn't kill me.
Speaker 1: You can't eat moldy cheese, Yeah, because I think like
Speaker 1: the heat. Wouldn't the heat like get rid of the bacteria?
Speaker 1: Is that? Isn't that how it works? I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I assume that makes sense. That's
Speaker 1: a logical way to look at it. Now, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: I did have the Tennessee trots, but I get that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they when you have dysentery, when you get
Speaker 1: to run to the bathroom. It was this organ trail. Well, no,
Speaker 1: that's an old that's like a civil war term. I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh no, I could say Mona Zuma's revenge. Has that
Speaker 1: been canceled? I don't know. Drink the water. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: whenever I fast, since I had my gallbladder taken out,
Speaker 1: whenever I fast for a long time, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what I eat, I immediately have to make a run
Speaker 1: for the commode. So I'm not sure if it was
Speaker 1: the mold or it was just my gall bladder acting
Speaker 1: up after I hadn't eaten in a while. So that
Speaker 1: was my pizza party foul with the moldy moldy. Gee,
Speaker 1: now here's the thing you called a foul. I think
Speaker 1: it's a story of redemption because you mess up the pizza,
Speaker 1: the nice Pizza Pa, and you fixed it and you
Speaker 1: still ate it. So that's a story of redemption. Ben, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, you've you've just validated my position. I told
Speaker 1: my wife that. She said, if you did that with
Speaker 1: my pizza, you'd have to throw that out and start off.
Speaker 1: I said, well, it's not your pizza. People don't appreciate
Speaker 1: pizza Pa. That's what I'm saying, right, this is confirmation
Speaker 1: that you can have a little mold on your pizza
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be okay. You shouldn't be wasting food
Speaker 1: during a global pandemic. Now, granted, like you might have
Speaker 1: invented some type of COVID variant, but I'm just saying
Speaker 1: the mold variant of the mold. Help centered is the
Speaker 1: the people over at Delta? Are they upset? Like? Wait
Speaker 1: a minute here, I mean, you assholes. At first it
Speaker 1: was called the coronavirus, so you're ruined Corona beer. Now
Speaker 1: it's the Delta variant, so you've screwed up the airline
Speaker 1: bed job by you. You know, It's like, what's going on,
Speaker 1: Let's get down to business. As long as it's not
Speaker 1: the whiskey variant, I think I'm fine. I'm good. Whereas
Speaker 1: there's nothing with the whiskey. Keep very open and shut,
Speaker 1: keep the whiskey cabinet, the whiskey bottle clear of any damage. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got you. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Speaker 1: Let's get scientifical. Let's get scientifical. Do a few science
Speaker 1: stories here now. And this is a tribute. I used
Speaker 1: to love the show called Bullshit. It was on HBO Showtime.
Speaker 1: I forget. It was a penn and teller and they
Speaker 1: examined random things and says this real or is it bullshit?
Speaker 1: And a lot of science. I love reading studies, scientifical
Speaker 1: studies from universities mostly, and I have learned over the
Speaker 1: years that there's so many weasel words in this. You
Speaker 1: really have to go over these things with a microscope
Speaker 1: and use critical thinking. You can't believe every single study
Speaker 1: because they throw a lot of weasel words out. Here's
Speaker 1: a study that says testosterone levels don't drive success, do
Speaker 1: not drive success? Uh, and this, this, this is good
Speaker 1: news if you're not an alpha male obviously, because you
Speaker 1: have a lot of tester testosterone a beta male. And
Speaker 1: they say it does not drive success in men, and
Speaker 1: they say much less important than previously claimed. Bullshit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I tend to agree. I think this is bullshit.
Speaker 1: I think this is the University of Bristol. They claim
Speaker 1: it's a myth that testosterone levels drive success in life,
Speaker 1: contradicting explain porn stars, well, well in that business, and
Speaker 1: I would say athletics. I mean, your brother was a
Speaker 1: pro basketball player, right, did he have an increased testosterone? Never,
Speaker 1: that's a question I never asked him. Ben Well, I understand,
Speaker 1: but just I mean, you know you're around, and you
Speaker 1: know when they're they a little more testosterone. He's got
Speaker 1: two kids, I mean, big stuff. Look at that. Look
Speaker 1: at that going for it. Yeah. I don't believe that one.
Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe. So I'm gonna choose
Speaker 1: not to believe that. Here's a fun story about bees.
Speaker 1: It's for the bees. It's the bee's knees. Bees, according
Speaker 1: to science, get buzzed off caffeine just like human bees do,
Speaker 1: and it makes them better. It makes them better. The
Speaker 1: bees are better bees when they're out doing their thing.
Speaker 1: This is why we have science. It's things like this.
Speaker 1: It's things like this. Uh. This is according to Greenwich
Speaker 1: University in southeast London. This is what they're doing in London.
Speaker 1: The caffeine is like cocaine or something. Well, it says
Speaker 1: a new study shows that bees also get a buzz
Speaker 1: from caffeine. It helps them become more productive on the job,
Speaker 1: more productive. I'm not a coffee drinker. I've never had
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee in my life, and I'm at
Speaker 1: the point now where I can't have a cup of
Speaker 1: coffee because I like to tell people I haven't had
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, so I can't have a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. I do take caffeine supplements every once in
Speaker 1: a while when I'm driving and I don't want to
Speaker 1: fall asleep and die when I'm driving in a ditch
Speaker 1: somewhere along the side of the road, but I generally
Speaker 1: don't even do a lot of that. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing though, Just drink some coffee. Yeah. Yeah, it's cheaper too,
Speaker 1: if you get a bottle of caffeine supplements that Walmart
Speaker 1: is somewhere it's very cheap for a bottle. A bottle
Speaker 1: of caffeine supplements is as much as a one one
Speaker 1: cup of Starbucks coffee and it'll last year, an entire
Speaker 1: month or longer. Fun fact. Yeah, anyway, what does it say?
Speaker 1: Let me go deeper into the study, says, scientists say
Speaker 1: the the pollinator learns better so when nectar is laced
Speaker 1: with the pick me up of a caffeine, and they
Speaker 1: go into a lot of scientifical minutia in this. But
Speaker 1: the study was published in Current Biology found bumble bees
Speaker 1: fed caffeine were better at remembering the smell of a
Speaker 1: specific flower and the nectar inside. How the hell do
Speaker 1: they know that? How do you feed a bee caffeine?
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, that's a good question, says let
Speaker 1: me try to find it here. I think you're not
Speaker 1: giving the coffee. No, no, uh, let's see here. Let's
Speaker 1: just say, uh, I think it's in in some of
Speaker 1: the flowers. I think I must I'm not reading this
Speaker 1: right here, it's in here somewhere. Uh. This as many
Speaker 1: stray towards neighboring wildflowers instead of the delicious summer fruit.
Speaker 1: But those that have had the the caffeine. I enjoy it. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here, what is it saying? La la la
Speaker 1: la la la la. Yeah, yeah, that's a great question, right,
Speaker 1: where is there natural caffeine? It doesn't it's not jumping
Speaker 1: out to me here, and we don't have time to read.
Speaker 1: It's a long study. And if I read the whole thing,
Speaker 1: no one will be listening to the podcast. So uh,
Speaker 1: they see they buy dozens or even hundreds of boxes
Speaker 1: of commercial bumbees a year to boost crops. All right,
Speaker 1: so this is something to help the farming farming community.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, there's gotta be natural caffeine. Just
Speaker 1: google it, probably get the answer, quicker. Just google it.
Speaker 1: There you go, says In test eighty six, previously untrained
Speaker 1: bumblebees were divided into three groups. Two got either the
Speaker 1: strawberry odor or the caffeineated sugar solution, uh sugar solutional.
Speaker 1: And also they gave them the calf. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: that's not It's cheating, isn't it. That's cheating anyway? They
Speaker 1: they they said the ones with the caffeine did better. Boy, okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't think we spent a lot of time on that.
Speaker 1: We did a deadly spider venom. As we get scientifical,
Speaker 1: deadly spider venom can help heart attack survivors recover. This
Speaker 1: could be a live change and could being a weasel
Speaker 1: word bullshit called bullshit on this. According to another study.
Speaker 1: This is from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 1: They say that the eight legged spiders friendly you know,
Speaker 1: eight legged spider may turn out to be life savers.
Speaker 1: The researchers report that venom from one particular type of
Speaker 1: spider is the integral ingredient in a new life saving
Speaker 1: treatment for heart attack victims who knew. The spider in question,
Speaker 1: formerly known as the Frasier Island funnel Web spider, is
Speaker 1: considered among the world's most deadly creepy crawler. And they
Speaker 1: say that a molecule extracted from the spider's venom is
Speaker 1: being used now to produce a new drug. That is
Speaker 1: a new drug candidate capable of both preventing heart attack
Speaker 1: damage and extending the life of donor art it's used
Speaker 1: for organ transplant. Okay, let's just say it like that
Speaker 1: this story is true. How in the world would they
Speaker 1: figure that out? Well, I'm dumb, so I'm not the
Speaker 1: person to ask. But there are people that are very smart.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people. I'm an idiot. I
Speaker 1: talk about sports for a living. I'm a moron. It's
Speaker 1: a great question. And they say that this drug, the
Speaker 1: new drug, actually blocks a death signal sent from the
Speaker 1: heart during a heart attack. The death signal. That's called
Speaker 1: that's what I'm reading it out of study. I'm reading
Speaker 1: it out of the study. It's from the University of Queensland.
Speaker 1: The death signal. Yeah, that's what it says right here.
Speaker 1: So is that how it works, like when you have
Speaker 1: a heart attack, that the heart sends a message of
Speaker 1: the brand. All right, we're done, shut her off. That's it.
Speaker 1: Good by everybody, We're out of here. Is that how
Speaker 1: that works? The death signal. I'm gonna steal that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that. It makes no sense. No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I am going to steal that and use that in
Speaker 1: a future Mallon monologue. The death signal. It's like the
Speaker 1: death star from Star Wars. I want to know what
Speaker 1: type of drugs these doctors are on to figure that out?
Speaker 1: You know what, man, You know we should try get
Speaker 1: some spiders, man, and just to see what happens. Now,
Speaker 1: here's the here's the thing, right, So I am of
Speaker 1: the belief. Tell me if I'm crazy this. I believe
Speaker 1: that all of the solutions to life problems are on
Speaker 1: this planet. We just haven't found them. Like every illness,
Speaker 1: I believe there is a cure for for that set
Speaker 1: illness on this planet, but we haven't yet discovered it.
Speaker 1: Am I crazy? Or am I on the path to salvation?
Speaker 1: You are crazy and you're also correct? No, I can't
Speaker 1: be both. You gotta pick. You can't. You can't stay
Speaker 1: on the for the fans. Ryan, you gotta get off
Speaker 1: the fence. Come on. I mean, I I agree with
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but I mean you're also kind of insane,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I don't think I am. I think
Speaker 1: I'm I'm right. I think that with all the different
Speaker 1: plants and all the things in the ocean, that we
Speaker 1: have no idea what the hell is there? And it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we'll ever find the solutions to this, doesn't
Speaker 1: mean we'll ever find the answers, but they're there. I
Speaker 1: really think they are there. I think everything we need
Speaker 1: is right here on this planet. We just have to
Speaker 1: find I'm becoming Benny Brightside, I'm becoming Mr Positive here.
Speaker 1: Let's not put the cart in front of the horse.
Speaker 1: Calm down, Calm down, All right, let's see what's next.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Study finds that friends who behave badly
Speaker 1: are easier to forgive than strangers. I'll go for it.
Speaker 1: This is obviously real and we didn't need to study
Speaker 1: to tell us that the reason you will forgive bad
Speaker 1: behavior by friends is because us. Hello there, your friends.
Speaker 1: You don't know a stranger from Tim Buck two, So
Speaker 1: who can't? I mean, what are you gonna do? Right,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna if you don't know somebody and they're
Speaker 1: an asshole to you, you're not going to give them
Speaker 1: the time of the day, right, Yeah? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you run across some stranger, You're like, okay, what if
Speaker 1: you guys a dick, I'm I'm out of here. But
Speaker 1: if it's a friend, you're like, well, what did you
Speaker 1: do that? You know? You're like, you figure out a solution.
Speaker 1: Global Let's say there's a global collapse, global collapse. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, there's a global collapse and a cataclysmic global collapse.
Speaker 1: Where is the place that you need to be to
Speaker 1: survive a cataclysmic global collapse. I'm talking about anywhere on
Speaker 1: this little blue marble we call Earth. Well, I know
Speaker 1: the place you're not supposed to be. Where would that be?
Speaker 1: That would be Boston, Massachusetts, there you there, you well,
Speaker 1: anywhere in the corridor to be fair, anywhere e c. Philly,
Speaker 1: New York, Boston. I had a buddy of mine who
Speaker 1: was a sportswriter who despised all the attention the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and Yankees got, and he called that the axis
Speaker 1: of evil, the corridor. He was the access of evil
Speaker 1: because everything in the country comes out of that region. Boston,
Speaker 1: New York, Philly, Washington, d c uh to this day. Uh.
Speaker 1: The answer, though, Ryan is New Zealand. Why they're New Zealand,
Speaker 1: they say tops the list because of their favorable island conditions.
Speaker 1: They identified five places with favorable conditions to survive a
Speaker 1: global cataclysmic event. New Zealand came out number one, followed
Speaker 1: by Iceland, the u k. Tasmania, and Ireland. Okay, so
Speaker 1: where's the last place wherever you are? Probably? Probably yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: they say. Threats to society globally floodings, route pollution, pandemic, superbugs, wildfires, food,
Speaker 1: loss severe financial crisis are all listened. There. The great
Speaker 1: thing about these studies, let me tell you why these
Speaker 1: are great, because if there is a cataclysmic global collapse,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna go back to look at the studies
Speaker 1: see if they're right or not. So it doesn't like
Speaker 1: this is one of those things like, oh, whakay, that's important,
Speaker 1: but no one's gonna say that you got it right.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna look it up down the line if
Speaker 1: something terrible happens. So it's it's one of those bull
Speaker 1: crap story. Bull crap story. So here's an exciting story
Speaker 1: from androids, from robots taking over the world, and I
Speaker 1: am convinced at some point we will have the battle
Speaker 1: the bots for real, like legitimate, big time robots. We'll
Speaker 1: have robots playing sports mixed with human beings. It's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Given enough time. We won't be around for it,
Speaker 1: but it will happen. So two legged robots are becoming
Speaker 1: more and more popular science, trying to master the art
Speaker 1: of walking like humans, making them look like humans. So
Speaker 1: there's a robot called Casey with the Sea and it
Speaker 1: has made history. It is completed a five k marathon
Speaker 1: in fifty three minutes. Fifty three minutes. But the robot
Speaker 1: they call it, she does it have she robot parts
Speaker 1: or he? All right? Anyway? Uh said she had to
Speaker 1: stop twice after her computer overheated and she fell while
Speaker 1: taking a corner too fast. Okay, so there is that.
Speaker 1: And they say that the makers of this robot are
Speaker 1: hoping to use it to deliver package is or work
Speaker 1: in warehouses. Well, this has Amazon written all over it,
Speaker 1: doesn't He says, like Amazon, Hey, we don't have to
Speaker 1: pay people, and we don't have to give them medical insurance,
Speaker 1: and we don't have to worry about them getting hurt
Speaker 1: on the job or not being productive. I'll just have
Speaker 1: a bunch of robots. Jeff Bezos saves more money so
Speaker 1: he can go into outer space. Again, if you had
Speaker 1: f you money and you were the richest person in
Speaker 1: the world, you'd probably do the same thing you're going.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't want to do that, but I
Speaker 1: get it. Like if you just think about this, they
Speaker 1: dude made so much money. He was bored to death.
Speaker 1: He was like, you know what, I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: of space. Well, and it's really because these other the
Speaker 1: other there's like two or three other rich dudes like that.
Speaker 1: We're doing the same thing, right. Uh, what's the guy
Speaker 1: from Tesla? What's that cat's name? I forget the guy's name,
Speaker 1: but he he was going out of space. Elon Musk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting Elon must name. But he was going
Speaker 1: to space. He was doing some stuff in space. And
Speaker 1: then the guy from that airline, the rich I Virgin
Speaker 1: Airlines that or something. Yes, yeah, Richard Branson's his name.
Speaker 1: Look at you. You're connected, guy, I'm connected. And I
Speaker 1: also say this, if you have so much money that
Speaker 1: you can go to outer space, you're not paying enough taxes. Now,
Speaker 1: come on, I am no, no, no, you should not
Speaker 1: pay a lot of taxes every If you have that
Speaker 1: much money, you're not paying enough taxes. I'm sorry. That
Speaker 1: is a fact. Put that on my tombstone. Listen. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I, like everyone else, I
Speaker 1: would think when it comes time to do the taxes,
Speaker 1: you you find it. Either you do your taxes or
Speaker 1: you find an accountant that will make you pay the
Speaker 1: least amount of taxes. Whether you're Bezos or Bezos or
Speaker 1: whatever his name or anybody, that's just how you want
Speaker 1: to pay it the full amount in taxes. Who wants
Speaker 1: to pay the full amount of taxes if you could
Speaker 1: not pay the full amountain taxes. So you're saying, oh,
Speaker 1: he has to pay more taxes, he might not be
Speaker 1: able to go out of space. Oh no, no, I
Speaker 1: I don't care whether it goes to outer space or not.
Speaker 1: The most amazing thing about Bezos is that he is
Speaker 1: stooping a woman that I know. That is that blows
Speaker 1: me away that the richest man in the history of
Speaker 1: the world, you know, at least in modern times, is
Speaker 1: dating a woman that used to cover the Lakers for
Speaker 1: Fox Sports West in Lauren Sanchez and I had dinner
Speaker 1: with her at Staples Center. Man, no, I'm not name shopping.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to me because I remember in the
Speaker 1: locker room she covered the Lakers, like in the shack
Speaker 1: Kobe days, the early days of Kobe and Shock was there.
Speaker 1: And I mean she's a very attractive woman. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would imagine if I'm not gonna go there, never mind,
Speaker 1: she's a lovely lady in my apologies tour, But the
Speaker 1: players and the Lakers were, I mean, they were giving
Speaker 1: her a lot of attention. You know what. I'm saying yeah, which, which,
Speaker 1: which goes back to my other point. What's proves that
Speaker 1: he's not paying enough taxes? To Bezos going out of space?
Speaker 1: Didn't nobody's hot women pay more taxes. That's my point.
Speaker 1: I respect people that try to pay as little as
Speaker 1: possible because I've tried to pay as little in tax Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: but you're not You're you're not Jeff Bezos. No, but
Speaker 1: here's the thing you should you're you're directing your rage
Speaker 1: at the wrong people. The people you should be upset
Speaker 1: about are the politicians that allow that to be possible. Right,
Speaker 1: if you are a rich enough person, you can make
Speaker 1: a deal and you can go to Congress and get
Speaker 1: laws change and get tax loopholes and go in there
Speaker 1: these things called lobbyists, and that's what the rich people do.
Speaker 1: And so that's really the problem. It's not it is,
Speaker 1: You're right, it is a problem. They always say like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, if they don't pay a lot of taxes,
Speaker 1: it will trickle down and people will get more jobs
Speaker 1: and work more. No, these people will just go to
Speaker 1: our space. That's where the money is going. Is not
Speaker 1: going to the people. Yeah, well, I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: kind of Dooby I I was. I watched that on
Speaker 1: YouTube when when Bezos went out of space, and I
Speaker 1: was expecting like a lot more than I got so
Speaker 1: angry about this. I'm not really angry. I don't really
Speaker 1: care whatever. It's fine. You know, eventually they'll be regular flights.
Speaker 1: You'll go to l A X. All right, We're going
Speaker 1: to go up to outer space for ten minutes and
Speaker 1: then we'll come back. And the man is so rich.
Speaker 1: He got married, divorced, lost a ship ton of money,
Speaker 1: and he's still the richest man in the world. That's
Speaker 1: all Richie is. Well. I say good for him. He
Speaker 1: came up with something that society clearly loves and spends
Speaker 1: a shipload of money on. And I think we should
Speaker 1: encourage more people to be the next Jeff Bezos and
Speaker 1: come up with a product and that everyone needs and
Speaker 1: makes their life easier. And I think that's that should
Speaker 1: be encouraged. I think that you should want to be
Speaker 1: the next Bezos and create something and get the riches
Speaker 1: of not Solomon, that's beyond the riches of Solomon. That's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: my god. All right, I think we've gone long on this.
Speaker 1: We should put the baby to bed. Unfortunately, the will
Speaker 1: will know we'll do no pop quiz will do that
Speaker 1: next week. And so Ryan, thank you? How can how
Speaker 1: can the masses follow you? Ryan McMahon, I knew you've
Speaker 1: been doing a tremendous job, yeoman's work here over the
Speaker 1: last nth last month. I'm sure management will give you
Speaker 1: a big fat raise at some point. Yes, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Jeff Bezos will pay more taxes before that happens,
Speaker 1: But I digress. You can find me on Twitter, Ryan
Speaker 1: McBain R Y A N M C B A I
Speaker 1: N and on Twitch Yes Twitch Ryan McBain on there
Speaker 1: as well, one of those twitch people yes with Twitters,
Speaker 1: which is also owned by Jeff Bezoz. Yes, you're helping
Speaker 1: them out. You're you're helping the man out right there. Anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Saturday. We got the
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Speaker 1: from Friday and have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 1: Will catch you next time.